Weather Channel to Feature Colorado Dome Home

Keith Wortman’s Monolithic Dome home in Fairplay, Colorado has made a lot of headlines over the years. The Denver Post, the Colorado Springs Gazette and even USA Today have featured the home, which has been christened Bristlecone Dome. In 2010, the home received so much publicity before the annual dome home tour that more than 700 people turned out to see the unusual property.

Soon, the home will be featured on national television as well. The Weather Channel plans to profile Bristlecone Dome in its new series called “Built to Last.” That news, in turn, has generated even more local publicity.

Colorado’s Channel 9 News- recently profiled the Wortman home, describing it as “a home that is built to last 1,000 years." Wortman told the news station that Monolithic Domes can withstand whatever nature throws their way, from earthquakes to tornadoes to hurricanes to firestorms.

The night after our home addition was inflated, some of the neighbors thought a UFO had landed. A soft orange glow radiated from the elliptical bubble. It almost seemed alive. Sound like something from a science fiction movie? The foam and concrete dome has something to do with science, but there’s nothing fictional about it.

What’s a fertilizer blend plant’s number-one enemy? Moisture! If water gets into or condensation forms inside a storage unit, it quite quickly begins degrading the fertilizer and forming rust. But Monolithic uses a technology that keeps that troublesome process to a minimum.

A Monolithic Dome Workshop is a combination of hands-on training and classroom instruction. Equal time is given to studying dome construction principles in a classroom setting and to applying those principles by actually building a Monolithic Dome.